Mother's Blessing

by Penina Keen Spinka

Book Overview

Pretty One and her baby, Four Cries, are cast out of the village when a wise man's prophecy--that Pretty One's son will grow up to be a great leader--is proven false because the infant is a girl. Four Cries, in her search for her spirit guide makes many allies, ultimately uniting three enemy villages and helping her own people avoid starvation--and fulfilling the prophecy!

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449704319
• ISBN13: 9780449704318
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Fawcett Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

This was a great book

This book is about a young indian girl when she was born, her father wanted her to be a boy and when he found out she was a girl he left his wife and his baby girl.When she gets older they meet a women that sends her to find her spiritural guide whit a bunch of men . She proves she can be just as good as them.She is always brave and trying to learn new things from the different tribes they visit. She meets so many different people and in the end becomes a leader herslef. This is a very good book. It is not like the other books I have read because it is so real and is not boreing. I could never put the book down.